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HOMEOBOX

8 letters, 22 points in Scrabble, 4 vowels

What HOMEOBOX Means

  1. noun: one of various similar homeotic genes that are involved in bodily segmentation during embryonic development

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

HOMEOBOX is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 22 in Scrabble and 23 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as H4 O1 M3 E1 O1 B3 O1 X8.

Words Made From The Letters In HOMEOBOX

48 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.

5 letter words (1)

4 letter words (7)

3 letter words (24)

2 letter words (16)

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